Mass extinctions, biodiversity and mitochondrial function: are bats 'special'as reservoirs for emerging viruses?

LF Wang, PJ Walker, LLM Poon - Current opinion in virology, 2011 - Elsevier
For the past 10–15 years, bats have attracted growing attention as reservoirs of emerging
zoonotic viruses. This has been due to a combination of factors including the emergence of …

Bats and viruses: a death-defying friendship

P Gupta, MP Singh, K Goyal, P Tripti, MI Ansari… - Virusdisease, 2021 - Springer
Bats have a primeval evolutionary origin and have adopted various survival methods. They
have played a central role in the emergence of various viral diseases. The sustenance of a …

Auditory opportunity and visual constraint enabled the evolution of echolocation in bats

J Thiagavel, C Cechetto, SE Santana… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Substantial evidence now supports the hypothesis that the common ancestor of bats was
nocturnal and capable of both powered flight and laryngeal echolocation. This scenario …

A blind climber: the first evidence of ultrasonic echolocation in arboreal mammals

AA Panyutina, AN Kuznetsov, IA Volodin… - Integrative …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The means of orientation is studied in the Vietnamese pygmy dormouse Typhlomys
chapensis, a poorly known enigmatic semi‐fossorial semi‐arboreal rodent. Data on eye …

Evolution of complexity. Molecular aspects of preassembly

FM Menger, SAA Rizvi - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
An extension of neo-Darwinism, termed preassembly, states that genetic material required
for many complex traits, such as echolocation, was present long before emergence of the …

[图书][B] The evolution and development of wing form, body size and flight in large-and small-bodied fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis and Carollia perspiciillata)

JB Shaw - 2011 - search.proquest.com
Differences in developmental patterns important to diversification are produced through
heritable variation of the onset/offset and timing of juvenile growth. As the size and shape of …

Phyllostomid bats flying in daylight: a case from the Neotropics

DAS Bôlla, F Carvalho, JJ Zocche, A Bianco… - Journal of Natural …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Bats (Chiroptera), one of the most diverse groups in terms of taxonomy, morphology and
ecology, are known for their nocturnal behaviour of flight and feeding. Although there is no …

[PDF][PDF] Найдавніші відомі рукокрилі (Chiroptera): між еволюційними новаціями та стазисом

ІІ Дзеверін - 2011 - dspace.uzhnu.edu.ua
НАЙДАВНІШІ ВІДОМІ РУКОКРИЛІ (CHIROPTERA): МІЖ ЕВОЛЮЦІЙНИМИ НОВАЦІЯМИ
ТА СТ Page 1 Sci. Bull. Uzhgorod Univ. (Ser. Biol.), 2011. Vol. 30 Наук. Вісник Ужгород. ун-ту …

[PDF][PDF] Phyllostomid bats flying in daylight: a case from the Neotropics

A Bianco, JA de Bittencourt Vitto, R dos Santosº - researchgate.net
Bats (Chiroptera), one of the most diverse groups in terms of Pººº 9 9 297 taxonomy,
morphology and ecology, are known for their nocturnal"","%": behaviour of flight and feeding …

[PDF][PDF] Dating Spodoptera clades

M Lammers - edepot.wur.nl
The beauty of insects fascinated me since I was 13 years old. At first I was happy with
catching some and releasing all of them. But later I learned that many species need to be …